Pacific in Peril - Greenpeace

Figure 4. Map showing relative position of rates of sea temperature warming over the 1900s
for 17 Pacific locations. Rates of warming calculated by Hoegh-Guldberg (1999) for data from
three sites on the Great Barrier Reef are shown in light grey type.
Figure 5. Seasonal sea surface
temperature data (IGOSS data from
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
database) for years 1990-2000 for
11 Pacific nations. Lines indicate
thermal thresholds (the interface
between a normal and a bleaching
year). Bleaching events that have
been reported either in coral-list or
in the literature are indicated by *.
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